Fox Ends Saturday-Morning Cartoons - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 11-25-2008, 01:07 AM

After terminating a deal with 4Kids, an independent producer of children’s programming, the Fox network closed down its Saturday morning block of cartoons on Monday, and became the first major broadcast network to agree to sell a part of its schedule to producers of infomercials.

Fox executives said that children’s programming was simply no longer viable on network television — mainly because of competition from cable channels.

All the other broadcast networks still have children’s programming on Saturday mornings. One, the CW network, has a deal with 4Kids that is similar to the arrangement with Fox. As part of an agreement between Fox and 4Kids, the deal will be terminated as of January. The news was first reported by the trade publication Variety on Monday.

Fox is giving two hours of Saturday time back to its affiliated stations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/bu.../25kidstv.html

comedyfreak · 11-25-2008, 01:44 PM

Hopefully CW will show some animated superhero toons.

Scoobiedoo30 · 11-25-2008, 02:35 PM

FOX Station's may air a Morning Newscast

Scoobiedoo30 · 12-03-2008, 05:06 PM

Now That Saturday Morning Cartoon's are ending What will air from 9:00 am until 11:00 am CT

MrCleveland · 12-04-2008, 04:01 PM

Looks like the SatAM Cartoon is dead!

AaronHandy3 · 12-22-2008, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCleveland

Looks like the SatAM Cartoon is dead!

The reason for its tragic demise: CABLE TV.

And DVD.

ekkostar · 12-22-2008, 06:40 PM

Like King of the Hill, this information was rumored as early as Spring 07, but the Fox animation department seems to be rather lazy actually setting action to the rumors they put out. This really is nothing new, I didn't think 4Kids actually did anything in the ratings and I haven't watched it since they stopped translating Sonic X in 2003 or 2004.

Scoobiedoo30 · 12-26-2008, 09:30 PM

My Station will not air a Saturday Morning News

SirFreebie1975 · 01-02-2009, 11:48 AM

informercials what else

Scoobiedoo30 · 01-02-2009, 12:15 PM

who will want to watch Informercials.

waichingliu81 · 01-02-2009, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AaronHandy3

The reason for its tragic demise: CABLE TV.

And DVD.

well there are certain factors why saturday morning cartoons are no longer a priority. its not just cable tv and dvds, but because the cartoons today, well most of them are just dire and not worth watching. no wonder people go on you tube and watch the oldies and buy classic cartoons on dvd- it's because they were quality. not the trash that passes for cartoons these days.

Wreckless · 01-02-2009, 02:29 PM

I used to watch and love the cartoons on Fox Kids. They used to send me those little Fox kids magazines, and I used to watch Power Rangers, Goosebumps, Beetleborgs and a bunch of others. Anybody remember all that? It was fun to get up and watch em on Saturday as a kid.

11-25-2008, 01:07 AM	#1
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SirFreebie1975 TexasSitcom Watcher Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 01, 2006 Location: Irving,Tx Posts: 34	informercials what else

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Scoobiedoo30 Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Jun 27, 2002 Location: KENNER, LOUISIANA Posts: 27,654	who will want to watch Informercials.

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Wreckless Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Nov 04, 2007 Location: Banned Posts: 9,406	I used to watch and love the cartoons on Fox Kids. They used to send me those little Fox kids magazines, and I used to watch Power Rangers, Goosebumps, Beetleborgs and a bunch of others. Anybody remember all that? It was fun to get up and watch em on Saturday as a kid.